What comics did you read as a kid? And what do you read now?

[rkomar]

Originally Posted by crich70

I have got the "Watchman" graphic novel...

If you're only going to have one graphic novel, then that's a pretty good choice.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by rkomar

If you're only going to have one graphic novel, then that's a pretty good choice.

Thanks. I was fortunate in that I was able to find it 2nd hand at a used bookstore here in town. It looks practically brand new too.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by crich70

I was all over the place as a kid. Superman, Batman, Disney, Richie Rich, Casper, House of Mystery, science fiction (like The Black Hole), even some western comics. Haven't read much in yrs though. They went up in price and down in number of pages (or so it seems).

They have.
The "cheaper" $2.99 titles run 17 pages of story, the $3.99 titles run 20-22.
And the stories are structured for the trade paperback collected volumes. Makes reading single issues less satisfying.
Paper quality has improved, though.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

They have.
The "cheaper" $2.99 titles run 17 pages of story, the $3.99 titles run 20-22.
And the stories are structured for the trade paperback collected volumes. Makes reading single issues less satisfying.
Paper quality has improved, though.

I can remember when you could get a 3 pack of comics (fairly thick ones) for around $1.25. Of course you got a grab bag assortment usually that way as it was hard to see what the middle comic was prior to opening the packaging. They were usually hung up to the side of the checkout lanes in grocery stores back then.

[mr ploppy]

Whizzer and Chips, Monster Fun, assorted Marvel reprints, Daredevils, Warrior, 2000AD, then followed all the writers to America -- Swamp Thing, Invisibles, Preacher, etc. Now, not so much of anything, but I do still read Walking Dead and Crossed. When they end that'll probably be it for me.

[Red Falcon]

I am an 80's kid so X-Men, GI Joe, Transformers, Conan.

Now Fables, The Walking Dead, Y-The Last Man, Locke and Key, Bone, Sandman and any other literate adult comic I get my hands.My Public Library has a lot of comic books and I take a stack out every couple weeks.

[Sweetpea]

Asterix and Obelix, TinTin, Gaston, a lot from Willy Vandersteen, Lucky Luke, and a lot I've no idea what they're called in English (or even in Dutch anymore which makes searching difficult). But I do know a lot came from Belgian writers.

I used to go to the library every saturday, and spend about an hour in the comic book corner (shelves full of them, with comfortable couches in front) before picking up the books I wanted to take home.

Now, Suske en Wiske (from Willy Vandersteen, or rather his successor), and Donald Duck (weekly magazine).

[Nothingness]

I used to read many as a kid. I liked to read european comics "bande dessinées" like Astérix, Tintin, Achille Talon, Les Shtrouphs (The Smurfs), and others that I don't remember their names. I also read Archie & Veronica, some Disney comics (Donald Duck and Scrooge), some super-heroes comics too.

I still read my favorite bande dessinées Astérix et Obélix and Achille Talon. I've tried to read graphic novels but I don't like them, I find them artistically ugly and the stories so so. The few I've liked were european ones. In the other hand, I really love mangas and I prefer their art style over western one. I also like the stories as well. I now collect them.

[danskmacabre]

When I was very young in the 70s I read Beano, Asterix, Peanuts..
A bit later Smurfs.

Later in my teens I read Lots of Marvel comics (SpiderMan, Xmen etc), DC comics (Batman and so on),
Judge Dredd and similar stuff from 2000 AD.
Various graphic novels (fancy comics) such as Slaine, Watchmen.

These days I don't read much in the way of comics.
I have been reading recently "The order of the stick" . a Fantasy comic that is written as a comedy take on Tabletop RPGs.
But that's about it.

[covingtoncat73]

Well, I was into Archie when I was very little. When I was 10, I discovered Elfquest. I loved the original Quest. I also got into A Distant Soil. Both EQ and ADS have restarted recently. My brother had a lot of super hero comics and I think my favorite of those were X-Men and its spin-offs.

I wish I had been hip enough to discover Sandman when it first came out but better late than never! I am loving Bill Willingham's Fables as well and have been getting into Saga and The Unwritten. Sweet Tooth didn't have my favorite style of art but it grew on me and was an interesting story.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

For most of my youth there was only really 2000ad, in Britain. Luckily it was brilliant.

I was over-simplifying a bit, here. When I was very young - in fact, I think it's what made me want to learn to read - I used to get Pippin, which I remember featuring the two bears, Barnaby (who I liked) and Rupert (who I didn't).

I also read Commando for a while, and at some point must have read the Beano, Dandy and clones, but these were all short-lived. Later there would have been Viz, and then Crisis and Toxic (which I might have a complete run of), but 2000ad outlasted the lot of them. I must have read it for fifteen years or more. It's almost surprising that I don't still read it.

[LovesMacs]

I used to read a lot of the X-Men titles, Legion of Super-Heroes, Astérix, Tintin, and Elfquest. After many years of not reading any comics, I've come back to them through e-reading. I don't follow any titles on a monthly basis but instead get a graphic novel about every month or two.

Most recently I've read "Red Son", a take on what if baby Kal-El had landed in Soviet Russia and grown up under communism to become Superman.

[william z]

Almost all the comics that were available in the 1950's (Disney, adventure, westerns, super-heroes, crime, horror, comedy, Archie); whatever was available. Comics cost a dime then and we used to trade them too. Later the Marvel super-hero comics (sure wish I had kept those, especially the first issues)!

I recall some of the more gross comics being blamed for crime in their day, and the "Comic Code Authority" came about. But from my personal experience the juvenile delinquents I knew never read comic books, or anything else for that matter.

Eventually I outgrew comic books, but still look at some once in awhile for the sake of nostalgia, I suppose. Some of the ones that seemed great when I was a kid just seem silly now.

[FacebookVirus]

Mid to late 70s kid here, and it was all Marvel all the time for me. Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, all the greats.

Stan Lee was my idol, and still is, really. What fun he must be having in the cameos of Marvel movies and meeting celebrities for pictures he posts on his Twitter account.

When I was into comics, I thought adults who liked comics were cool. But I didn't grow up to be one. David Mack's Kabuki is the only comic series I've read as an adult, and that's been over a decade ago now.

[Rizla]

I used to read Marvel (Spiderman, etc).

All I read as an adult is stuff written by Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, early League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, etc). I've yet to find anything else that approaches his mature and innovative approach to the graphic novel.